If you had already had “deranged horror villain experiments with the brains of live primates” on your Elon Musk corporate scandal bingo card, you’re a pretty interesting person I gotta say
For those asking, yes there were allegations of it months ago but now the details are public record. You can probably get the gist of it and know that this is for real without actually reading those details because I promise you don’t want to do that
On this day, 30 November 1963, Black tenants in four rundown tenement buildings in Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn, went on rent strike, as part of a wave of rent strikes across the city in protest against slum conditions.
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) announced that 11 families were withholding rent, joining 750 families in Harlem on rent strike. They were demanding that the city take over and renovate buildings at 104, 106 and 112 Rochester Ave, and that 110 Rochester Ave be condemned.
Marshall English, a New York CORE activist, told the New York Times: “We have talked with landlords, big landlords and have met with a number of city agencies… So far the result has been nil… When the landlord is faced with no rents, then we get some action”.
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